Pablo Picasso famously said that `art is a lie that tells the truth. Lewis Hyde, writing in Trickster makes this world: How disruptive imagination creates culture, quotes this aphorism in support of his contention that ...

The Big Bang theory postulates that an explosion of matter and energy set off the expansion of the universe. The universe was created by this explosion, and it continues to grow. This phenomenon is called Hubble's Expansion, ...

Myths and stories sometimes tell us information we prefer not to observe consciously. This article argues there is a homology between cyborgs and zombies, by considering the Cybermen in the long running British TV programme ...

The Chinese port city of Tianjin, between 1860 and 1945, was the site of up to nine foreign-controlled concessions (zujie).1 This chapter focuses on the Italian concession ( 1901- 1945) and explores its historical legacy. ...

Neoliberal restructuring is driving a dramatic rescaling of Australian political economy that has transformed it into a rapidly growing "success story" ("Australia's Economic Performance," 2006). In 2006, the Executive ...

The 19451946 trial of major German perpetrators before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg has often been called the greatest trial in history. More than the prominence the major protagonists, the principles ...

In a globalized world, transnational companies are implicated in power relations with many other organizations, including states, and are responsible for millions of people's lives and livelihoods. Building positive ...

AIm tin parallel with rhe discollrses on social justice and cia I classes the discouTse ofgovemance in the People's Republic fChill<1 (PRC) emerged ill the early 1990s. [t has gathered morncmturn in the last decade. generated ...